Hardly a child in the streets was safe, and no woman, whether wife or daughter, whom God had made comely, dare show herself on the roofs.

Their own women had been carried off to the palace at the Kasbah.

That was why they themselves were there in prison.
This was about a month after the coming of Israel to Shawan.

Then his reason began to unsettle.

It was pitiful to see that he was conscious of the change that was befalling him.